Before and After Pictures of Shikarpur Pediatric Ward
Just a follow up on the Shikarpur Pediatric Ward, Umair Jaffer prepared a short PDF file on the before and after pictures of the work done at the Shikarpur pediatric ward as a collaborative effort between OffroadPakistan and CDRS-Shine Humanity. The older three wards were revamped by OffroadPakistan and we also took the burden of [...]
Shikarpur Pediatric Ward revamped
A team of offroadpakistan headed to Shikarpur this last weekend to oversee the restoration of the Pediatric Ward at the Civil Hospital Shikarpur, Khalid Omar and Sabiha Omar represented us for the four days to supervise the total cleanup and painting of the three existing wards which included repair of the existing beds, the installation [...]
URGENT- Forcible eviction of Flood Affected people in Karachi
A very urgent appeal was emailed by Zulfiqar Shah of Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research [PILER] to a number of mailing lists appealing for help in preventing the forcible eviction of over 10,000 flood affected IDP’s from their camp in Karachi… In my opinion there might seem to be an ulterior political motive [...]
PK Relief Mission #8 – Video Montage
Faisal Kapadia compiles a short video of our Medical Camp at Moro – Mission #8. I too am surprised at the impressive impact we have had on the flood relief PK RELIEF STATS: 8 relief missions, 47,500 people given with 5-days of food, 25,000 people fed with ready to eat food, 480 families provided with [...]
Relief Mission #8 – Medical & Flood Relief to Moro & Dadu
The Offroadpakistan team this week embarked on a medical relief mission to Moro and Dadu. The plans for a Medical camp had been taking place since the start of the flood effort, but our initial focus was on providing food and shelter as in the first phase of the disaster that was the basic need [...]
Eid Day at Flood Relief Camp at Northern By-pass Karachi
Many years ago, maybe even in my childhood, when I spent much of my time crossing through the hole in the wall of Jinnah hospital where we lived, into the Bijatta line juggis to Farzand ki dukan, I stopped thinking of people as rich and poor, but as nice people or not, gentle or rough, [...]
Laidback Show Episode 24 – C-130 Flood Relief to Jacobabad
The OffroadPakistan team boarded a Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft this last week to deliver over 1200 food hampers to the flood affected victims of Jacobabad. Jacobabad has been cut off from relief work due to the inaccesbility of teh Jacobabad-Shikarpur road and the only possible way to access this area is to be airlifted [...]
PkRelief raises $142,000 and Feeds over 61,800 flood affected people
Ever since the start of our first flood relief mission to Sukkur on 14th August 2010 the sheer number of lives that we may have impacted is truly unimaginable PkRelief has to its credit the following statistics Provided 36,800 people with food hampers, each hamper contained basic food for a family of 5 for a [...]
Video of the conditions of a Pediatric ward in Shikarpur
A worldwide appeal by Dr. Awab Alvi for upgrading the pediatric ward in Shikarpur. He takes you through a walk-thru tour of the Pediatric ward at the Civil Hospital Shikarpur to show the deplorable the conditions that have been aggravated due to a large influx of flood related victims into the area. The ward looks [...]
Laidback Show Episode 22 – Flood Relief
Faisal Kapadia and Dr. Awab Alvi head to Sukkur and Shikarpur along with offroadpakistan & SA Relief to deliver relief to the affectees in the region. During the trip they produced the 22nd episode of the Laidback Show
Flood Relief Mission #3 to Thatta
Starting this third flood relief mission, yet again we will document it live via GPS and also CoveritLive. I believe that is the only way to share with the world what we see and hear on the ground. Flood Relief Mission 3 – Thatta #PkRelief
Report: Flood Relief Mission #2 to Shikarpur
On return after our first relief effort to Sukkur two weeks back we had several meetings amongst the core group of volunteers adopting a long term medical relief and rehabilitation strategy, however during the subsequent week we continued to receive urgent demands for help emanating from many of the inundated villages of Sukkur and Shikarpur [...]
PICTURES: Flood Relief Mission #2 to Shikarpur
Pictures from our Flood Relief mission to Shikarpur this weekend in conjunction with OffroadPakistan and SARelief.com
Pakistan Flood Relief: Field Notes from Doctors to District Khairpur – Day 1
Dr. Nighat Shah’s brief about our trip: Khairpur at this moment is housing huge bulk of displaced people from Larkana, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, and many smaller villages like thul, ghouspur etc. The registered displaced people are more than 50,000. Around 120 camps are housing people in small clusters. These range from 250-300 people in smaller schools [...]
Flood Relief Drive to Sindh – Live Tracking
It seems we are finally off on our mission to provide relief to the flood affected region in Sukkur, Sindh. The OffroadPakistan has collected some significant funding for taking 6 trucks of relief good valued at more then Rs. 2.4 Million – four trucks of standardized basic food valued at Rs. 16,80,000, one truck containing [...]
